Monday, July 27, 2009

HEAT - ISSUE 1 (July '77)

Heat - Issue 1

Dublin, 1977, Zine

Produced by editors Pete "Nasty" Price and Jude Carr, HEAT was the most professional of all the early Irish punk fanzines until VOX emerged in 1980. The magazine ran for 12 issues ( 9 physical zines - for some reason issue 7,8,9 was all one issue ) and had an ever evolving style and content ranging from music to comics to cinema. The dominant feature of HEAT was it's ability to take the piss throughout it's hand written pages, something which eventually led to being sued by U2's management ( look hard enough and you'll find info on this urban legend!! ). It folded in May 1979 and Pete Price went on to produce the short lived but equally interesting BLACK & WHITE fanzine.- Boz Mugabe

1 comment:

You absolute L.E.G.E.N.D!! I am seriously so fucking overwhelmed looking over the good work here. I'm listening to The Waltons..it's so hard to find out proper Irish stuff on the web. Absolute gem. Cheers!

Info: So as not to piss too many people off or step on too many toes I am not going to be archiving any current Irish punk stuff that's on release and has not yet gone out of print. I am also not wanting too infringe on copyright bullshit so I will not be posting any bands or releases that were on the larger independents (such as Good Vibrations) or major labels. This archive is only for bands who put out their own demo's/7"'s/tapes themselves or on small run independents. If any members of the bands contained in this blog want to have their stuff removed I am more than happy to accomadate that. also if any members of bands featured feel this is the perfecr place to have their music available could they also please get in touch so I can get in contact with them should I have any legal problems from pricks like IMRO over the 'legality' of this project.

Last but not least get in touch if you have old recordings/photos and so on. I can pretty much digitise any format so let me know if you have any old demo's/7's/live recordings you think fall under the title of DIY Irish Hardcorepunk